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Petition Addressing the Texas Judicial System Requests Support through Tracie Thoms’s “Dumbass”
Will Hollywood be a Reason for Change in the Injustice against Men and Women Prisoners?
Tracie Thoms – 19th March 2021 – An upcoming movie depicting the injustice that men and women had to endure in the state penitentiaries in Texas has been inundated with calls from more than 2000 women urging the production company owned by Hollywood actor, producer and director Tracie Thoms and Adam Sandler, to stick to the real issues behind the Texas Judicial system. A petition was signed by many people that include attorneys, university professors, politicians and family members of the many men and women that are suffering in the state penitentiaries. The idea behind the petition is for the Tracie Thoms production company and Hollywood to stick to the true story about the injustices happening in the state run prisons. It is said that the state has sent more inmates to prison than during the Soviet Union did during their political uprising.
PREMISE: Adam Sandler writes letters and saves numerous women from the monotony of prison life, and later when he gets into trouble with a drug cartel they return the favor by rescuing him.
SETTING: Contemporary, Gatesville Texas. There are four women’s prisons located in Gatesville. And of course, Texas is famous for putting everyone in prison for a long time for little or no reason. The number of women in Texas prisons has doubled in the last ten years. Why don’t we have the “Adam Sandler” character… sending letters to women in prison and being their friend and trying to help them adjust, giving them hope… and when they get out of prison he picks them up so they don’t have to ride the smelly bus back home… but his pickup truck is a junker, smoking and sputtering … worse than the bus. But his heart is in the right place… He’s the last “chivalrous” man on earth.
It is said in the petition that many of the signatories were left distraught to find that many of the first time offenders for violations such as drug peddling have received disproportionate sentences. While some argue that a lenient sentence like rehabilitation would have proven much more inexpensive and an effective solution in tackling this gross miscarriage of justice. The petition was discovered by the women when the screenplay of the movie was donated to all the 580 prisons run by private organizations funded by the state government. It is much more difficult for women who are given much harsher penalties for a violation such as carrying small amount of drugs like Marijuana which coincidentally is legal in 21 states.
To know more visit http://www.screenplay.biz/petition-asks-happy-madison-productions-to-read-script/
About Tracie Thoms’s “Dumbass” Movie
The movie “Dumbass” revolves around the protagonist writing letters to prison inmates to keep their spirits high during their time in prison; only for them to help the main character who gets into trouble with a drug cartel and saving him at the end. The petition urges the production company, Tracie Thoms and Adam Sandler to take this issue seriously due to the hardships faced by women inside prison rather than making light of the situation for their own profits.
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First ten pages establishes genre
First ten pages introduce the external conflict
Tracie Thoms – First ten pages introduce the internal conflict
First ten pages introduces the hero
Zolo confronts Joan and Elaine in a scene recalling the first scene Joan narrated from her book. Joan throws her concealed knife, but Zolo deflects it and comes after her. Joan screams for Jack’s help. Jack is wrestling the gator, but lets it escape when he realizes Joan is in danger. But Jack has to scale the tower wall to get to her, a deft way to keep the hero active and manly while allowing the heroine to have the FINAL BATTLE WITH ANTAGONIST on her own. (Elaine, of course, has fainted.) Zolo is about to kill Joan when she grabs the wood club and hits his wrist stump. Zolo falls back on a lamp and catches on fire, then falls into the gator pit and is devoured. [1.39]
Tracie Thoms – But now Zolo appears, with Jack and Ralph captive (TWIST). Zolo burns the map, saying, “They already have the stone,” Joan lies, saying that they dug and didn’t find it, so Zolo drags her out to the gator pit and cuts her to draw the gators. Jack calls to him to let Joan go, and drops the emerald from his pants. He throws it toward the pit, but Zolo catches it – then has his hand bitten off by a gator, which swallows the hand and the emerald as Zolo screams. Jack grabs a gun from his guard and starts shooting, and mayhem erupts — Zolo’s men are shooting, Ira’s men are shooting, Joan grabs Elaine and runs, Zolo pursues with a lethal looking club of wood. Jack goes after the gator and the emerald. Ira abandons Ralph on the dock, and Ralph sends the police boat after him (contrast of the bad cousins turning on each other while the sisters stick together).
SEQUENCE EIGHT
Night, with lightning in the sky. Joan takes the water taxi and gets out on the spooky dock. Armed men are watching her as she enters the catacomb-like tower. (STORMING THE CASTLE – it really is a kind of castle.) As Ira’s voice demands the map, Joan demands to see her sister (showing her CHARACTER GROWTH). Elaine stumbles out into the chamber, and Joan sets the map down. As the sisters embrace, Ira studies the map, then tells them they’re free to go. (CONFRONTATION WITH SECONDARY OPPONENT and FALSE ENDING.)
by: Tracie Thoms – Actress | Soundtrack | Producer, Rent (2005) | Death Proof (2007) | The Devil Wears Prada (2006)